Hubert Netzer

Grave of Hubert Netzer (Pasing Cemetery in Munich).

Hubert Netzer (born October 5, 1865 in Isny im Allgäu ; † October 15, 1939 in Munich ) was a German sculptor , medalist and university teacher .

Live and act

Netzer was the son of an Allgäu gilder and attended the Munich Art Academy from 1890 . There he was a student of Adolf von Hildebrand , Johannes Hoffart and Wilhelm von Rümann .

Netzer taught from 1911 at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts , which was merged into the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1919 . Netzer had made a name for himself by designing a number of fountains in Munich, including the Triton Fountain in 1893, the Narzissbrunnen in 1897, the Nornenbrunnen in 1907 and the Jonas Fountain in 1910. In the "Class for Sculpture" at the School of Applied Arts under the direction of Wilhelm Kreis , Netzer taught the use of sculpture and painting in architecture .

Hubert Netzer was a member of the German Association of Artists . His students included Arno Breker , Hans Meyers , Ernst Gottschalk , Curt Beckmann , Ferdinand Heseding and Willi Hoselmann .

He is the father of the painter, graphic artist and art writer Remigius Netzer (1916–1985).

plant

• 1893: Triton Fountain on Herzog-Wilhelm-Strasse, Munich
• 1896: Prometheus group of figures on the gable of the central building of the University of Würzburg
• 1896: Narcissus fountain in the south-western part of the garden of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich , further execution in front of the Cecilienhof Palace in Potsdam.
• 1907: Nornenbrunnen in Munich
• 1910: Margaret of Sicily-Aragon and 3 other rulers in the collegiate church in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
• 1911: Jonasbrunnen on Josephsplatz in Munich (sculpture destroyed in the war and modernized in 1961)
• 1913: first version of the Blitzeschleuder as a competition design for a world telegraph monument in Bern (awarded 2nd prize)
• 1913/1914: six seat images of the virtues on the portico of the former state and district court building in Mühlenstrasse in Düsseldorf's old town
• 1915/1921: Siegfried monument on the Ehrenfriedhof in Duisburg-Kaiserberg (designed in 1915, cast in 1919, erected in 1921)
• 1918/1925: Revision of the Blitzeschleuder (design exhibited in Berlin in 1918, cast in bronze by the Gustav Schmäke foundry (Düsseldorf) in 1924/1925 , 1926–1974 in the south curve of the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion , since 2004 in the roundabout on Heinz-Ingenstau-Straße In Dusseldorf)
• 1921: Memorial stone with Sphinx relief "The thinking of the victims of January 10, 1919, erected by the city of Düsseldorf" ( Spartacus uprising ), North Cemetery Düsseldorf
• 1921: Sensing Klio (also mourning muse ) with medallion (bust relief) of miner Hermann Brassert in Bonn at the old customs
• 1928: War memorial in the memorial hall of the Ehrenfriedhof on Schillerstraße in Duisburg-Homberg

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  Mittelbau at the University of Würzburg with the Prometheus Group

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  Nornenbrunnen in Munich

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  Ruprecht I (Palatinate) (1910) in the Neustadt collegiate church

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  Margaret of Sicily-Aragon (1910) in the Neustadt collegiate church

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  Mourning Muse (musing Klio) and portrait medallion in Bonn

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  Blitzeschleuderer in Düsseldorf

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  Portico of the former district court , Düsseldorf

Honors

There is a Hubert-Netzer-Weg in his hometown Isny.

literature

• Julius Baum: The foreign Swabians. In: Contemporary art in Stuttgart. Stuttgart 1913, p. 215 f.
• Richard Klapheck : Hubert Netzer. In: Die Kunst, monthly journals for free and applied arts. Volume 37, Volume 33 (1918), pp. 348-361.
• Netzer, Hubert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 400 .
• Josef Niesen , Bonn monuments and their builders. Königswinter 2013, p. 236.

Web links

Commons : Hubert Netzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The "Blitzeschleuderer" is back in its old place. Antenne Düsseldorf , September 3, 2004. Retrieved April 13, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Hubert Netzer. Artist. German Society for Medal Art, accessed on November 29, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Register entry at the Munich Art Academy
3. ^ Kuenstlerbund.de: Ordinary members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Netzer, Hubert ( kuenstlerbund.de ).
4. ↑ Julius Baum: Hubert Netzer . In: Contemporary art in Stuttgart . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1913, p. 216 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Prometheus swings up the torches of knowledge ( memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gable of the University of Würzburg. 
6. ↑ Narcissus Fountain
7. ↑ Photo of the portal with the six seated persons , in Rhine and Düssel (No. 11) from March 14, 1914
8. ↑ Ruth Schmitz-Ehmcke: Ehrenfriedhof and Regimental Memorial Duisburg-Kaiserberg. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. 4th year 1987, No. 4, pages 13-16.
9. ↑ Ehrenfriedhof on Friedhofsallee / corner of Schillerstraße. ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on historisches-homberg.de , accessed on October 23, 2014.